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Defend the Gates!

Defend the Gates! is a Horde-only quest for level 5-30 in Azshara. It is step 4 of 88 in the Azshara storyline. The quest's turn-in marker is in Azshara at 26.7, 78.3. It rewards 1 reputation reward and 4,100 experience.

Description

Egah - what's going on?

<Screams, shouts, and the roar of combat fills the radio.>

<name>! Get back here right away. Hurry back to the gates - we're under attack!

Help us fend off the invaders. I'm arming your grenade launcher!!

Rewards

Experience4,100 XP
ReputationBilgewater Cartel +250
Top Comments

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Thanks for the help Cronollo and Tzieq, that was the problem. I was using TomTom quest 2 and when I disabled it I got the button for quest turn in and was instantly able to acquire the next quest in the chain; "Arboricide"

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Rewards in detail
TypeRewardAmount
ExperienceXP4,100
ReputationBilgewater Cartel+250

Reward details

Reputation: Bilgewater Cartel +250

Run by the ruthless Trade Prince Gallywix, the Bilgewater Cartel is the most powerful trading company on the Isle of Kezan. From their headquarters at Bilgewater Port, the cartel dominates trade all over the South Seas.

Reputation group: Horde.

Other quests in Azshara that reward Bilgewater Cartel reputation: Runaway Shredder! (+250), The Captain's Logs (+250), Up a Tree (+250), Arborcide (+350), Basilisk Bashin' (+250), Report to Horzak (+25).

Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.

Where it comes from
Turn-in mapAzsharaTurn-in marker at 26.7, 78.3, 9 mapped points
World Map

Where to go

Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.

Azshara Quest turn-in 9 mapped points
Azshara map showing where to go for Defend the Gates!Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective area

In-game waypoint: /way #76 26.7 78.3

Coordinates

  • Turn-inAzshara 26.7, 78.3/way #76 26.7 78.3
  • Objective area (centre of the marked area)Azshara 26.7, 76.2/way #76 26.7 76.2
  • Objective areaAzshara 27.0, 77.1/way #76 27.0 77.1

Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.

Nearby on the Azshara map

Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Azshara, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.

Getting there

Horde flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on Azshara:

  • Valormok, AzsharaHorde · about 840 yards north-west
  • Orgrimmar, DurotarHorde · about 850 yards south-west
  • Southern Rocketway, AzsharaHorde · about 1,400 yards east

From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:

  • Objective areaabout 80 yards north
  • Objective areaabout 50 yards north

Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.

Quest Line

Storyline

Azshara

Part 4 of 88.

Previous: Up a Tree · Next: Arborcide

  1. 1Runaway Shredder!
  2. 2The Captain's Logs
  3. 3Up a Tree
  4. 4Defend the Gates!
  5. 5Arborcide
  6. 6A Quota to Meet
  7. 7Basilisk Bashin'
  8. 8Stone Cold
  9. 9The Perfect Prism
  10. 10Prismbreak
  11. 11Refleshification
  12. 12Another Warm Body

Showing steps 1 to 12 of 88.

Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.

Where this quest fits

Before this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • Up a TreeAzshara · Level 5-30

    Hold still a second, I'm going to bring your main buzzsaw controls online. Night elven snipers from Talrendis have been hiding in the trees, taking potshots at my workers. I want you to take care of those snipers... by first taking care of those trees.

After this quest

Taken from the storyline's own step order.

  • ArborcideAzshara · Level 5-30

    How's that shredder holding up? I think I can bring your emergency power supplies online - that'll recharge you when you're wounded. Listen, these night elves are being strengthened by an ancient of war who's taken root just west of the gates. He's a big, giant tree. You know what to do!

The storyline at a glance

Azshara has 88 steps, from Runaway Shredder! to The Conquest of Azshara.

Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Azshara (88).

Steps of this storyline count toward:

Other storylines on the Azshara map

Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.

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Database

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